Tuesday digest II
- It's encouraging to see that there are some socialists who in fact DON'T want to change Canada's flag to a white cross on a white background.
- Quiz time: Who said the following today?
"It is regrettable that US policies in the Middle East have fueled extremism, terrorism and anti-US sentiment."
"What has happened recently in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and
Iraq is exacerbating the fight against global terrorism."
"The US should take this opportunity to review its policies in the Middle East and start looking at the root causes of terrorism and broker a comprehensive peace in the Middle East."
Your choices are as follows:
a) Sean Penn
b) Alexa McDonough
c) George Galloway
d) Jesse Jackson
Answer here.
- Lawrence Kaplan makes it clear: a retreating United States would be, as he calls it, an "engine of murder" in Iraq.
Indeed.
posted by Road Hammer @ 8:55 PM
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Short answer is that it's been five years since the last attack on America. The longer this period lasts, the more the answer has to be "yes". That's how I keep score, but others might keep score by how many suspected terrorists scream "torture" and therefore say that the US is losing. However, like I said in an earlier post (and I hate to employ this cliché but it applies), I truly believe history will be the judge because it's such a complex thing we're talking about here. (To use a metaphor, it didn't look like the West was winning the Cold War during the Cuban Missile Crisis, right?)
Not like anyone should really care what I think anyways ...
Your cliche is correct, history will be the judge.
I think right now the war on terror is being won. There has not been another significant attack on North American soil (that's right, I said NA, as in Canada too) and I'm sure many more attempts have been diverted than have been reported to the press.
The root cause argument?
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